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Kangaroos Endangered by Global Warming Global warming does not necessarily entail only more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but also drastic increases in temperatures worldwide. Over the next 50 years or so, the temperature in Australia is predicted to rise by about 2 to 6 degrees Celsius. While this may not seem like much on paper, new ecological stu...	16 October 2008 06:44 GMT

Forget Beef, Eat More Kangaroo An adviser from the Australian government who is involved in climate change matters asks people to let go of their beef and lamb-based meals and shift to kangaroo meat consumption if they want to help saving the planet.Economist Ross Garnaut based his 600-page studies on the fact that cattle and sheep have reached wo...	2 October 2008 04:35 GMT

The Oldest Kangaroo Was Very Different Today, kangaroos are Australia's wildlife symbols and the largest living marsupials. Now, a 25-million-year-old marsupial fossil seems to represent the oldest species in the lineage of the kangaroos. Unlike the hopping man-sized kangaroos, these ones ran on all fours, had carnivorous-like fangs and might have be...	7 December 2007 05:56 GMT

8 Amazing Facts about Kangaroos 1.Scientists believe that kangaroos' and wallabies' ancestors could have looked like a Wynyardia, a 21 million years old marsupial found in Tasmania. The largest living kangaroo, the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) is also the largest living marsupial. Males are up to 1.8m (6 ft) tall and weigh up to 84 kg (1...	21 November 2007 10:06 GMT

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